Pachinko
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
178669137X
ISBN 13
9781786691378
Category
FICTION - ENGLISH
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
537
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Description
‘Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing.’
–The Guardian
Yeongdo, Korea 1911
A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.
‘A beautifully realised saga.’
TLS
–The Guardian
Yeongdo, Korea 1911
A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.
‘A beautifully realised saga.’
TLS
Number of Copies
1